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Montecristo A - 5 cigars

Product Review (submitted on July 25, 2018):

Received my second box of 5 Montecristo A's from Cigar Terminal.

My first box was dated Oct 2016. Those cigars had already aged properly by the time they arrived and were amazing out of the box. The wrappers are soft and oily and full of plume.

This second shipment is dated Dic (Diciembre or December) 2017--so they are only 6 to 7 months into the aging process. And it shows.

I smoked one from this younger box yesterday and you can tell that it really needs to sit for another year. There is still plenty in common with the other, older box, like the peppery finish and the relatively firm draw, which is almost identical.

But the younger cigars taste different in the first two thirds of the smoke. They taste almost green, crying out for more aging time. They are not harsh, just lacking in flavor that will most certainly come with proper humidor aging. The individual boxes holding each cigar are harder to open in the new box. And while well-constructed, the new cigars seem a little rougher in the wrapper. Just a little--nothing to worry about.

The bottom line is that if you are planning on buying these to smoke right away, and you get the more recent boxing date, I would rate the cigars 3 or 4 stars. Honestly, they need to sit for 6 months to a year before they will be ready to smoke.

An extra year of aging will make a big difference here.